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nkapp run

Deploy services only, without touching infrastructure. Useful when infrastructure is already provisioned and you only need to update application containers. Now supports targeting specific services.

nkapp run [service] [options]

Options

FlagTypeDefaultDescription
-e, --env <env>stringlocalTarget environment

When to Use

ScenarioCommand
First setup (infra + services)nkapp up
Infrastructure already running, services need updatenkapp run
Only want to see what would changenkapp plan

nkapp run is essentially the service-only half of nkapp up. It skips the infrastructure planning and provisioning phases entirely.


Examples

# Reconcile all services locally nkapp run -e local # Reconcile only the "docs" service nkapp run docs -e local # Update services on staging nkapp run -e stage # Update only the "api" service on staging nkapp run api -e stage